Comments on: Beta testing the site redesign http://andrewosenga.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fandrewosenga.net%2F2008%2F05%2F20%2Fbeta-testing-the-site-redesign%2F%23comment-&seed_title=Beta+testing+the+site+redesign The Almost-Official Fan Site of Andrew Osenga Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:51:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Joseph http://andrewosenga.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fandrewosenga.net%2F2008%2F05%2F20%2Fbeta-testing-the-site-redesign%2F%23comment-2637&seed_title=Beta+testing+the+site+redesign/comment-page-1/#comment-2637 Joseph Thu, 29 May 2008 21:20:59 +0000 http://andrewosenga.net/?p=118#comment-2637 Very dark, sleek and cool. Great job. Very dark, sleek and cool. Great job.

]]> By: Sharon http://andrewosenga.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fandrewosenga.net%2F2008%2F05%2F20%2Fbeta-testing-the-site-redesign%2F%23comment-2626&seed_title=Beta+testing+the+site+redesign/comment-page-1/#comment-2626 Sharon Sun, 25 May 2008 10:03:31 +0000 http://andrewosenga.net/?p=118#comment-2626 What a cool surprise when I clicked on my bookmark and this opened. It looks great! What a cool surprise when I clicked on my bookmark and this opened. It looks great!

]]> By: Geof F. Morris http://andrewosenga.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fandrewosenga.net%2F2008%2F05%2F20%2Fbeta-testing-the-site-redesign%2F%23comment-2619&seed_title=Beta+testing+the+site+redesign/comment-page-1/#comment-2619 Geof F. Morris Thu, 22 May 2008 02:29:12 +0000 http://andrewosenga.net/?p=118#comment-2619 That's what she said! That’s what she said!

]]> By: Chris Hubbs http://andrewosenga.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fandrewosenga.net%2F2008%2F05%2F20%2Fbeta-testing-the-site-redesign%2F%23comment-2618&seed_title=Beta+testing+the+site+redesign/comment-page-1/#comment-2618 Chris Hubbs Wed, 21 May 2008 14:19:19 +0000 http://andrewosenga.net/?p=118#comment-2618 <blockquote>Me, I just like the photo.</blockquote> Yeah, Geof, you're easy. :-) But thanks for a great photo to use.

Me, I just like the photo.

Yeah, Geof, you’re easy. :-) But thanks for a great photo to use.

]]> By: Geof F. Morris http://andrewosenga.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fandrewosenga.net%2F2008%2F05%2F20%2Fbeta-testing-the-site-redesign%2F%23comment-2616&seed_title=Beta+testing+the+site+redesign/comment-page-1/#comment-2616 Geof F. Morris Wed, 21 May 2008 02:31:45 +0000 http://andrewosenga.net/?p=118#comment-2616 Me, I just like the photo. ;) Me, I just like the photo. ;)

]]> By: Chris Hubbs http://andrewosenga.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fandrewosenga.net%2F2008%2F05%2F20%2Fbeta-testing-the-site-redesign%2F%23comment-2614&seed_title=Beta+testing+the+site+redesign/comment-page-1/#comment-2614 Chris Hubbs Tue, 20 May 2008 19:23:48 +0000 http://andrewosenga.net/?p=118#comment-2614 Matt, Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks much. I've been a bit of a bad developer here; to date I've tested it on exactly one platform: Firefox on my Win XP laptop. :-) I'll stress test it some more over the next few days. And good call on the comment preview. I'll see what i can dig up... surely there's a WP plugin for that... --CJH Matt,

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks much. I’ve been a bit of a bad developer here; to date I’ve tested it on exactly one platform: Firefox on my Win XP laptop. :-) I’ll stress test it some more over the next few days. And good call on the comment preview. I’ll see what i can dig up… surely there’s a WP plugin for that…

–CJH

]]> By: Matt http://andrewosenga.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fandrewosenga.net%2F2008%2F05%2F20%2Fbeta-testing-the-site-redesign%2F%23comment-2613&seed_title=Beta+testing+the+site+redesign/comment-page-1/#comment-2613 Matt Tue, 20 May 2008 19:20:25 +0000 http://andrewosenga.net/?p=118#comment-2613 Hey man! Good work! I like the dark look. Got some nit-picky details, but figured I'd throw them at you anyways. There are a few little visual details with IE8 - such as the dotted line underneath some links (the '.story h3 a' elements). They look ok in IE7. I noticed you hadn't added the new IE X-UA-Compatible tag. (Details on this can be found <a href="http://alistapart.com/articles/beyonddoctype" rel="nofollow">here</a>). But simply put, if you add this to the <head> section, IE8 (and future versions of IE) will render exactly like IE7: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" /> Also, IE has issues with Opacity, so when "HOME" is highlighted the background is black instead of just being darkened. Off the top of my head I don't remember how to fix this. Firefox has some issues (GASP!) in the "Follow AndrewOsenga.net" section. When you hover over the link, the underlin extends to go under the icons as well (instead of just underlining the text). I think the best way to fix this is to remove the <img> tag from inside the <a> tag and make it a background image for the link instead. Then if you set the link to display: block and padding-left: 25px (or so), it should look the same (with the icon to the left of the text) and you'll still be able to click the icon to activate the link. In Opera the "Songs" section isn't floating underneath the "Discography" section like it is in IE/FF. Don't know why (don't have time to figure it out). The navigation bar has a strange mix of font faces (see the css font-family attribute for "#navigation ul"). Some of them are Serif fonts and some are Sans-serif. Just means that on systems that don't have the default "Lucida Sans" font (like my Ubuntu box) the nav text looks dramatically different. Again, nitpicky detail. On all systems, when you grow/shrink text, the size of the black navigation link highlighting doesn't always fill the orange row, so you get an orange stripe below the black box sometimes. It would be cool if the header where it says "Andrew Osenga.net" was a link to the home page (maybe more of a preference than a hard-and-fast rule though). Also, would be cool to be able to preview comments. :) Heh, guess I had a lot of little details. Hope it doesn't sound critical, because I really do like the new look and feel. Well done, amigo! -matt Hey man! Good work! I like the dark look.

Got some nit-picky details, but figured I’d throw them at you anyways.

There are a few little visual details with IE8 - such as the dotted line underneath some links (the ‘.story h3 a’ elements). They look ok in IE7. I noticed you hadn’t added the new IE X-UA-Compatible tag. (Details on this can be found here).

But simply put, if you add this to the <head> section, IE8 (and future versions of IE) will render exactly like IE7:

<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=8″ />

Also, IE has issues with Opacity, so when “HOME” is highlighted the background is black instead of just being darkened. Off the top of my head I don’t remember how to fix this.

Firefox has some issues (GASP!) in the “Follow AndrewOsenga.net” section. When you hover over the link, the underlin extends to go under the icons as well (instead of just underlining the text). I think the best way to fix this is to remove the <img> tag from inside the <a> tag and make it a background image for the link instead. Then if you set the link to display: block and padding-left: 25px (or so), it should look the same (with the icon to the left of the text) and you’ll still be able to click the icon to activate the link.

In Opera the “Songs” section isn’t floating underneath the “Discography” section like it is in IE/FF. Don’t know why (don’t have time to figure it out).

The navigation bar has a strange mix of font faces (see the css font-family attribute for “#navigation ul”). Some of them are Serif fonts and some are Sans-serif. Just means that on systems that don’t have the default “Lucida Sans” font (like my Ubuntu box) the nav text looks dramatically different. Again, nitpicky detail.

On all systems, when you grow/shrink text, the size of the black navigation link highlighting doesn’t always fill the orange row, so you get an orange stripe below the black box sometimes.

It would be cool if the header where it says “Andrew Osenga.net” was a link to the home page (maybe more of a preference than a hard-and-fast rule though).

Also, would be cool to be able to preview comments. :)

Heh, guess I had a lot of little details. Hope it doesn’t sound critical, because I really do like the new look and feel. Well done, amigo!

-matt

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